Modular Display System with Autonomous Video Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media content delivery systems lack flexibility and efficiency in presenting personalized media content across multiple devices, as they often require centralized controllers and are not easily scalable or adaptable to non-rectangular display configurations.
Innovation Solution
A modular display device comprising a module array of display and functional modules with perimeter bus connections, allowing for flexible assembly and configuration, where each module can receive and update video data based on its location, enabling multicast video streaming and synchronized display updates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a centralized controller is used to manage media content delivery, then system control and coordination are improved, but device complexity and scalability are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into multiple independent display modules, each capable of autonomous operation. Each module has its own processing capabilities and can independently receive and display video content, eliminating the need for a centralized controller while maintaining coordinated display across the entire system.
Solution Approach 2:
Each display module is designed to be self-sufficient with integrated processing units, memory, and control logic. The modules autonomously manage their own operation, content rendering, and synchronization with other modules through peer-to-peer communication, removing dependency on external centralized control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional display configurations are used, then manufacturing simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to various formats and configurations is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
Each display module is designed as a universal unit that can function in multiple configurations. The modules have standardized interfaces and can be arranged in various patterns (rectangular, non-rectangular, linear, grid), allowing the same basic module to adapt to different display requirements without requiring custom manufacturing for each configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system allows dynamic reconfiguration of module arrangements. Modules can be added, removed, or repositioned to change the overall display geometry and size, enabling the system to adapt to different spatial requirements and content types while using the same modular components.
3Ease of operation
If personalized media content presentation is implemented, then user experience is improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
Each display module independently processes and renders personalized content based on its specific position and characteristics. The system delivers customized video streams to individual modules, allowing each to display content optimized for its local context (viewing angle, size, orientation) without requiring complex centralized processing for each module.
Solution Approach 2:
Content personalization and processing are performed in advance before distribution to display modules. Video content is pre-processed, segmented, and prepared for specific module configurations, reducing the computational burden on the display system itself while enabling rapid content delivery and personalized presentation.
4Adaptability or versatility
If scalable display configurations are enabled, then adaptability to different sizes is improved, but device complexity and interconnection requirements are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into identical or similar modular units with standardized connection interfaces. This segmentation allows scalable configuration where the same module type can be replicated and connected in various numbers and arrangements, simplifying interconnection despite system scale.
Solution Approach 2:
All display modules use uniform designs, interfaces, and communication protocols. This homogeneity reduces interconnection complexity by eliminating the need for different connection types or protocols when scaling the system, as each module connects to others in the same standardized manner regardless of total system size.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a multicast video stream directed to an array of a plurality of display modules movably attached to a modular display, extracting, by the system, video display data from the multicast video stream according to a location within the array of a first display module of the plurality of display modules, and updating, by the system, a video display of the first display module according to the video display data that is extracted from the multicast video stream, wherein the updating is synchronized to a master clock of the modular display. Other embodiments are disclosed.